On behalf of our Bonner General Health Community Hospice, may we take this opportunity to offer our heartfelt appreciation to our local community members, partners, organizations and businesses, for generously supporting our 19th annual hospice rose event. Your support helps our community’s only not-for-profit Hospice serving Boundary and Bonner counties. As a Medicare-certified hospice, we offer a full spectrum of palliative services which include — medical care, equipment, treatment and medication to those facing life limiting illness. It is our privilege and honor to walk with our community members to provide comfort, hope, support, respect and compassion while honoring their wishes for the very highest quality of life.

Special appreciation to our hospice rose team: Erzebet Cloud, Alice Samuelson, Cheri Hiatt, Sonia Gladish, Will Gadsby, Phil Degens. Lauri Brown and Joanne Sims; BGH Community Hospice/Home Health staff and volunteers; the BGH campus; BGH Volunteer Council members: Margo Johnson, Becky Stone, Jodie Barbee, Sue Clemens, Marsha Henderson, Bonnie Lunderstadt; Sandpoint High Interact Club, Thorne Research, Litehouse Foods, Selkirk Association of Realtors, Evergreen Realty, Tomlinson Sotheby’s International Realty, Century 21 Riverstone, Sandpoint Rotary, Ponderay Rotary, Columbia Bank, Bart Casey, Lakeview Funeral Home, Finan McDonald, NW Handmade Furniture, Sharon’s Hallmark, Creations of Sandpoint, Steve’s Import Auto, Lightening Lube, Winter Ridge, Sandpoint Community Resource Center, Wesley Dustman and Selkirk Printing, Community Assistance League, Angels Over Sandpoint, Life Care Center of Sandpoint, East Bonner County Library, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Safeway stores of Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry; Azalea, Pend Orielle Winery, All Seasons, Bonners Ferry Rotary, Boundary Tractor, Carpet Pro, Farm Bureau Insurance, Far North Deli, Kayser Insurance, Leonard Schulte CPA, Pace Kerby, Riverside Auto Center, Soul Shine and Jean Elsaesser.

A very special and unique appreciation to Kaye Ross, the founder of our hospice community rose event and Janet Sturdevant — for your gift of volunteering and bringing forth joy and roses to our community members.

BGH Community Hospice also provides a full spectrum of ongoing bereavement classes and support for our community members, including outreach to parents who have lost children, adult grief group, Coping with Grief Classes, annual Kids Grief Camp and our Tree of Memorial Lights event.

LISSA DEFREITAS

Sandpoint

Bonner General Health

Community Hospice

volunteer/

Bereavement Services coordinator